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40 years (or so) of Electronic Pings
It’s been 40 years since Pong was unleashed on an unsuspecting world, and PongMuseum.org is there to celebrate. Check out their collection for some oddities like East-German TvSpiel, the chunky West-German Tele-Multiplay - 825-301, or the GD 1380 that came with a gorgeous blue light-gun from the late, lamented HeathKit, or celebrate the do-it-yourself ethic with your own TV game kit (sorry, PAL only).
Currently, there’s a not-to-be-missed video of Ralph Baer playing Pong back in 1969: wide ties and analog blips, ahoy!
SCP has featured some different pong incarnations: choose-your-own-adventure book; pong-mechanik is mechanical pong; and Pong Story which is heavy on the history and photos.
Time enough, and solder
Spare Time Gizmos uses his, wisely. We are particularly intrigued by the COSMAC ELF 2000 and the SBC6120 — both machines the we, sadly, will probably never build.
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z80.info is the home of all-things Z80-related.
You know, the Zilog chip behind the CP/M machines, GameBoy, and others. Ah, the mid 1970s, when so many things were possible! Nowadays, all we have to look forward to is the degradation of Moore’s law and multi-cores progressing towards the singularity. Nobody cares about undocumented opcodes anymore….